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Karlos Hill

May 31st and June 1st 2021 mark the hundredth anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the most violent anti-Black attacks in U.S. history. With the AHR’s June issue, the journal joins  in commemorating that terrible event. The cover of the issue features photographs of Tulsa's Greenwood district, and it accompanies an article by University of Oklahoma historian Karlos Hill titled “Community Engaged History: A Reflection on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.” In this episode, AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein speaks with Hill about community engaged history and about his own ongoing support of commemorative and memory related work in Tulsa leading up to the 2021 centenary.

May 31st and June 1st 2021 mark the hundredth anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the most violent anti-Black attacks in U.S. history. With the AHR’s June issue, the journal joins  in commemorating that terrible event. The cover of the issue features photographs of Tulsa's Greenwood district, and it accompanies an article by University of Oklahoma historian Karlos Hill titled “Community Engaged History: A Reflection on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.” In this episode, AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein speaks with Hill about community engaged history and about his own ongoing support of commemorative and memory related work in Tulsa leading up to the 2021 centenary.

Karlos Hill on Community Engaged History

Alyssa Sepinwall

Andrew Denning

AHR author Andrew Denning speaks with historian Alyssa Sepinwall about historical video games and gaming history. Sepinwall is the author of the forthcoming book Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games. Denning’s AHR article, “Deep Play? Video Games and the Historical Imaginary,” appears in the March 2021 issue along with a cluster of reviews on the video game series “Assassin's Creed.”

AHR author Andrew Denning speaks with historian Alyssa Sepinwall about historical video games and gaming history. Sepinwall is the author of the forthcoming book Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games. Denning’s AHR article, “Deep Play? Video Games and the Historical Imaginary,” appears in the March 2021 issue along with a cluster of reviews on the video game series “Assassin's Creed.”

Alyssa Sepinwall and Andrew Denning on Historical Video Games

This episode features a March 2, 2021, Virtual AHA session that hosted a discussion of the recent AHR Conversation on Black Internationalism, which appeared in the December 2020 issue of the AHR. The published conversation included seven scholars drawn from a range of fields and perspectives—Monique Bedasse (Washington University in St. Louis), Kim D. Butler (Rutgers University), Carlos Fernandes (Center of African Studies (CEA) from Eduardo Mondlane University), Dennis Laumann (University of Memphis), Tejasvi Nagaraja (Cornell University), Benjamin Talton (Temple University), and Kira Thurman (University of Michigan). The Virtual AHA, moderated by now former AHR Associate Editor Michelle Moyd (Indiana University, Bloomington), featured four of the conversation participants—Bedasse, Fernandes, Laumann, and Talton.  You can find video of the session on the AHA’s YouTube channel.

This episode features a March 2, 2021, Virtual AHA session that hosted a discussion of the recent AHR Conversation on Black Internationalism, which appeared in the <a href="https://doi-org.oca.ucsc.edu/10.1093/ahr/rhaa513" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">December 2020 issue</a> of the AHR. The published conversation included seven scholars drawn from a range of fields and perspectives—Monique Bedasse (Washington University in St. Louis), Kim D. Butler (Rutgers University), Carlos Fernandes (Center of African Studies (CEA) from Eduardo Mondlane University), Dennis Laumann (University of Memphis), Tejasvi Nagaraja (Cornell University), Benjamin Talton (Temple University), and Kira Thurman (University of Michigan). The Virtual AHA, moderated by now former AHR Associate Editor Michelle Moyd (Indiana University, Bloomington), featured four of the conversation participants—Bedasse, Fernandes, Laumann, and Talton. You can find video of the session on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tNItUx3s_A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AHA’s YouTube channel</a>.

An AHR Conversation on Black Internationalism

Jessica Marie Johnson

In this episode, AHR Consulting Editor Lara Putnam speaks with Johns Hopkins University historian Jessica Marie Johnson about the intersection of the history of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora and the digital humanities. Among other things, they discuss Johnson’s 2018 Social Text article “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Johnson’s recent book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, was published in 2020 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

In this episode, AHR Consulting Editor Lara Putnam speaks with Johns Hopkins University historian Jessica Marie Johnson about the intersection of the history of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora and the digital humanities. Among other things, they discuss Johnson’s 2018 Social Text article “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7145658" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads</a>.” Johnson’s recent book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, was published in 2020 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Jessica Marie Johnson on the History of Atlantic Slavery and the Digital Humanities

Merle Eisenberg

Lee Mordechai

Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai discuss their article “The Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept,” which appears in the December 2020 issue of the AHR. Eisenberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland. Mordechai is a senior lecturer in the History Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Together, they host the podcast Infectious Historians. Eisenberg and Mordechai spoke with Georgetown University historian John McNeill.

Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai discuss their article “The Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept,” which appears in the December 2020 issue of the AHR. Eisenberg is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland. Mordechai is a senior lecturer in the History Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Together, they host the podcast Infectious Historians. Eisenberg and Mordechai spoke with Georgetown University historian John McNeill.

Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai on the Plague Concept

In this episode we speak with Monica H. Green, a historian of medicine and global health, about her article, “The Four Black Deaths,” which appears in the December 2020 issue of the AHR. In it, Green draws on work in paleogenetics and phylogenetics alongside documentary evidence to suggest both a broader and more nuanced understanding of how plague spread in the late medieval world. Green spoke with Georgetown University historian John McNeill.

In this episode we speak with Monica H. Green, a historian of medicine and global health, about her article, “The Four Black Deaths,” which appears in the December 2020 issue of the AHR. In it, Green draws on work in paleogenetics and phylogenetics alongside documentary evidence to suggest both a broader and more nuanced understanding of how plague spread in the late medieval world. Green spoke with Georgetown University historian John McNeill.

Monica H. Green on The Four Black Deaths

Ari Joskowicz

In this episode, historian Ari Joskowicz discusses “The Age of the Witness and the Age of Surveillance: Romani Holocaust Testimony and the Perils of Digital Scholarship,” which appears in the October 2020 issue of the AHR. Joskowicz is Associate Professor of History, and of Jewish Studies and European Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he also directs the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies. His publications include the 2014 book The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France. He is currently at work on a project that explores the entangled histories of Jews and Romanies in twentieth-century Western and Central Europe and in the U.S. and Israel. Joskowicz spoke with AHR consulting editor Lara Putnam.

In this episode, historian Ari Joskowicz discusses “The Age of the Witness and the Age of Surveillance: Romani Holocaust Testimony and the Perils of Digital Scholarship,” which appears in the October 2020 issue of the AHR. Joskowicz is Associate Professor of History, and of Jewish Studies and European Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he also directs the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies. His publications include the 2014 book The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France. He is currently at work on a project that explores the entangled histories of Jews and Romanies in twentieth-century Western and Central Europe and in the U.S. and Israel. Joskowicz spoke with AHR consulting editor Lara Putnam.

Ari Joskowicz on His Article “The Age of the Witness and the Age of Surveillance”

Ian Milligan

In this first episode of the fourth season of the podcast, we speak with historian Ian Milligan about his 2019 book History in the Age of Abundance?: How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research. In it, Milligan explores what it means for historians’ work both now and going forward that so much of the record of human society is now born digital and accumulating at an unprecedented scale on the World Wide Web. History in the Age of Abundance? is the subject of a Review Roundtable that appears in the October 2020 issue of the AHR. Ian Milligan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo. He serves as the principle investigator for the Mellon Foundation supported project Archives Unleashed, which aims to make archived internet data more accessible to researchers by developing data search and analysis tools. His previous monograph, Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada was published in 2014.

In this first episode of the fourth season of the podcast, we speak with historian Ian Milligan about his 2019 book History in the Age of Abundance?: How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research. In it, Milligan explores what it means for historians’ work both now and going forward that so much of the record of human society is now born digital and accumulating at an unprecedented scale on the World Wide Web. History in the Age of Abundance? is the subject of a Review Roundtable that appears in the October 2020 issue of the AHR. Ian Milligan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo. He serves as the principle investigator for the Mellon Foundation supported project Archives Unleashed, which aims to make archived internet data more accessible to researchers by developing data search and analysis tools. His previous monograph, Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada was published in 2014.

Ian Milligan Discusses His Book History in the Age of Abundance?

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to submit an article to the AHR, how the review process works, how best to frame your submission, or what type of work the AHR is most interested in? In this special episode of AHR Interview, we invited three recent AHR authors to discuss precisely these questions. Our guests are Carina Ray of Brandeis University, Sana Aiyar of MIT, and Marc Hertzman of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The articles they discuss are: Carina E. Ray, “Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast,” The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 1, February 2014, Pages 78–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.1.78 Sana Aiyar, “Anticolonial Homelands across the Indian Ocean: The Politics of the Indian Diaspora in Kenya, ca. 1930–1950,” The American Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 987–1013, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.4.987 Marc A. Hertzman, “Fatal Differences: Suicide, Race, and Forced Labor in the Americas,” The American Historical Review, Volume 122, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 317–345, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.2.317 You can learn more about submitting your work to the AHR at americanhistoricalreview.org. Music in this episode is  “Outer Reaches” by Bio Unit.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to submit an article to the AHR, how the review process works, how best to frame your submission, or what type of work the AHR is most interested in? In this special episode of AHR Interview, we invited three recent AHR authors to discuss precisely these questions. Our guests are Carina Ray of Brandeis University, Sana Aiyar of MIT, and Marc Hertzman of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The articles they discuss are: Carina E. Ray, “Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast,” The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 1, February 2014, Pages 78–110, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.1.78" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.1.78</a> Sana Aiyar, “Anticolonial Homelands across the Indian Ocean: The Politics of the Indian Diaspora in Kenya, ca. 1930–1950,” The American Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 987–1013, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.4.987" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.4.987</a> Marc A. Hertzman, “Fatal Differences: Suicide, Race, and Forced Labor in the Americas,” The American Historical Review, Volume 122, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 317–345, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.2.317" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.2.317</a> You can learn more about submitting your work to the AHR at <a href="http://www.americanhistoricalreview.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">americanhistoricalreview.org</a>. Music in this episode is <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bio_Unit/Content/Outer_Reaches_1793" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Outer Reaches” by Bio Unit</a>.

Submitting Your Work to the AHR

AHR Interview presents brief discussions with historians whose work has appeared in the American Historical Review, the official publication of the American Historical Association. Sometimes the interview accompanies an article or a featured review in a current or recent issue; other times it will feature a scholar who has recently been in the news, but whose work appeared in the journal in the past. These accessible and user-friendly podcasts highlight historical scholarship of wide interest and enormous import for issues of the day.

AHR Interview

Nicholas Syrett

In this episode we speak with historians Corinne Field and Nicholas Syrett about the April 2020 AHR Roundtable they co-edited titled “Chronological Age: A Useful Category Of Historical Analysis.” Corinne Field is Associate Professor of Women, Gender &amp; Sexuality at the University of Virginia and the author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Nicholas Syrett is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas and the author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). Together they co-edited the volume Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present (New York University Press, 2015).

In this episode we speak with historians Corinne Field and Nicholas Syrett about the April 2020 AHR Roundtable they co-edited titled “Chronological Age: A Useful Category Of Historical Analysis.” Corinne Field is Associate Professor of Women, Gender &amp; Sexuality at the University of Virginia and the author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America (University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Nicholas Syrett is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas and the author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) and American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). Together they co-edited the volume Age in America: The Colonial Era to the Present (New York University Press, 2015).

Corinne Field and Nicholas Syrett on the Roundtable "Chronological Age"

In this two-part interview, we speak with Michigan State University historian Sharon Leon. Known for her work in American religious history and in digital public history, before moving to MSU Leon spent over a decade at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University where she oversaw numerous award-winning digital projects as well as served as director for the web publishing platform Omeka, a tool whose ongoing development she continues to oversee. Her long list of digital history scholarship includes numerous chapters and articles on topics ranging from digital public history to critiques of the narrative of the field of digital history’s own development. In part 1 of the conversation, we focus on Leon’s conception of a broader and better history of digital history as well as her own journey into that field. You can read more on this aspect of Leon’s work in the 2018 volume Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities in the chapter “Complicating a ‘Great Man’ Narrative of Digital History in the United States.”

In this two-part interview, we speak with Michigan State University historian Sharon Leon. Known for her work in American religious history and in digital public history, before moving to MSU Leon spent over a decade at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University where she oversaw numerous award-winning digital projects as well as served as director for the web publishing platform Omeka, a tool whose ongoing development she continues to oversee. Her long list of digital history scholarship includes numerous chapters and articles on topics ranging from digital public history to critiques of the narrative of the field of digital history’s own development. In part 1 of the conversation, we focus on Leon’s conception of a broader and better history of digital history as well as her own journey into that field. You can read more on this aspect of Leon’s work in the 2018 volume Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities in the chapter “Complicating a ‘Great Man’ Narrative of Digital History in the United States.”

Sharon Leon Part 1: A Better History of Digital History

In part 2 of this conversation with Michigan State University historian Sharon Leon, we examine the concept of historians as data creators. Among other things, we discuss Leon’s chapter draft “The Peril and Promise of Historians as Data Creators: Perspective, Structure, and the Problem of Representation,” which you can read and comment on at 6floors.org/bracket.

In part 2 of this conversation with Michigan State University historian Sharon Leon, we examine the concept of historians as data creators. Among other things, we discuss Leon’s chapter draft “The Peril and Promise of Historians as Data Creators: Perspective, Structure, and the Problem of Representation,” which you can read and comment on at <a href="http://6floors.org/bracket" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">6floors.org/bracket</a>.

Sharon Leon Part 2: Historians and Data

Charles Francis

AHR author Charles Francis speaks about his October 2019 issue article “Freedom Summer ‘Homos’: An Archive Story.” Francis is president of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., an LGBTQ history society that partners with pro bono legal counsel McDermott Will &amp; Emery to undertake archival research that brings to light hidden and suppressed aspects of LGBTQ political history in order to educate the legal community, community leaders, and the media—work the society conceives of as “archive activism.” Francis spoke about his article with AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein and Florida International University historian of queer history Julio Capó Jr.

AHR author Charles Francis speaks about his October 2019 issue article <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz316" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">“Freedom Summer ‘Homos’: An Archive Story.”</a> Francis is president of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., an LGBTQ history society that partners with pro bono legal counsel McDermott Will &amp; Emery to undertake archival research that brings to light hidden and suppressed aspects of LGBTQ political history in order to educate the legal community, community leaders, and the media—work the society conceives of as “archive activism.” Francis spoke about his article with AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein and Florida International University historian of queer history Julio Capó Jr.

Charles Francis on LGBTQ Archive Activism

T.J. Tallie

AHR Associate Editor Michelle Moyd speaks with T.J. Tallie about his reappraisal of Keletso E. Atkins’s 1993 book The Moon Is Dead! Give Us Our Money! The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843–1900. Tallie is Assistant Professor of History at the University of San Diego and the author of Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). His reappraisal article “‘The Myth Is Dead! Give Us Our History!’ Reassessing Black Labor in African History” appears in the December 2019 issue of the AHR.

AHR Associate Editor Michelle Moyd speaks with T.J. Tallie about his reappraisal of Keletso E. Atkins’s 1993 book The Moon Is Dead! Give Us Our Money! The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843–1900. Tallie is Assistant Professor of History at the University of San Diego and the author of Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). His reappraisal article “‘The Myth Is Dead! Give Us Our History!’ Reassessing Black Labor in African History” appears in the December 2019 issue of the AHR.

T.J. Tallie on "The Moon Is Dead! Give Us Our Money!"

Ana Minian

In this episode, Stanford University historian Ana Minian talks about her February 2020 AHR article “Offshoring Migration Control: Guatemalan Transmigrants and the Construction of Mexico as a Buffer Zone.” Minian is the author of the book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Harvard University Press, 2018). Her recent op-ed  "America Didn’t Always Lock Up Immigrants" appeared in the New York Times. She’s currently writing a book about the history of immigration detention.

In this episode, Stanford University historian Ana Minian talks about her February 2020 AHR article <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz1227" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Offshoring Migration Control: Guatemalan Transmigrants and the Construction of Mexico as a Buffer Zone.”</a> Minian is the author of the book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Harvard University Press, 2018). Her recent op-ed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/opinion/sunday/border-detention-tear-gas-migrants.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> "America Didn’t Always Lock Up Immigrants"</a> appeared in the New York Times. She’s currently writing a book about the history of immigration detention.

Ana Minian on Her Article “Offshoring Migration Control"

Tyler Anbinder

My guest is Tyler Anbinder who, along with Cormac Ó Gráda and Simone A. Wegge, authored the article “Networks and Opportunities: A Digital History of Ireland’s Great Famine Refugees in New York,” which appears in the December 2019 issue of the AHR. Tyler Anbinder is Professor of History at George Washington University. He is author of such works as Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s; Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum; and City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. Cormac Ó Gráda is Professor Emeritus at the University College Dublin’s School of Economics. His books include Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780–1939 (Oxford University Press, 1994); Black ’47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (Princeton University Press, 1999) and Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. Simone Wegge is Professor of Economics at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Wegge researches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European emigration and the socioeconomics of nineteenth-century European villages. Her work has appeared in the European Review of Economic History, the Journal of Economic History, Social Science History, among other venues.

My guest is Tyler Anbinder who, along with Cormac Ó Gráda and Simone A. Wegge, authored the article “Networks and Opportunities: A Digital History of Ireland’s Great Famine Refugees in New York,” which appears in the December 2019 issue of the AHR. Tyler Anbinder is Professor of History at George Washington University. He is author of such works as Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s; Five Points: The Nineteenth-Century New York Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum; and City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. Cormac Ó Gráda is Professor Emeritus at the University College Dublin’s School of Economics. His books include Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780–1939 (Oxford University Press, 1994); Black ’47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (Princeton University Press, 1999) and Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. Simone Wegge is Professor of Economics at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Wegge researches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European emigration and the socioeconomics of nineteenth-century European villages. Her work has appeared in the European Review of Economic History, the Journal of Economic History, Social Science History, among other venues.

Tyler Anbinder on Ireland’s Great Famine Refugees in New York

Ben Wright

Joseph Locke

This episode is the next installment in our series exploring history and the digital world. AHR podcast editor Daniel Story and AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein examine the free and collaborative online U.S. history textbook The American Yawp in a conversation with the project’s co-editors,  Ben Wright of the University of Texas at Dallas and  Joseph Locke of the University of Houston–Victoria. You can access The American Yawp, as well as explore ways of contributing, at americanyawp.com.

This episode is the next installment in our series exploring history and the digital world. AHR podcast editor Daniel Story and AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein examine the free and collaborative online U.S. history textbook The American Yawp in a conversation with the project’s co-editors, <a href="https://www.utdallas.edu/ah/people/faculty_detail.php?faculty_id=1961" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Ben Wright</a> of the University of Texas at Dallas and <a href="https://www.uhv.edu/arts-and-sciences/about/faculty/listing/joseph-locke.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Joseph Locke</a> of the University of Houston–Victoria. You can access The American Yawp, as well as explore ways of contributing, at <a href="http://www.americanyawp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">americanyawp.com</a>.

Ben Wright and Joseph Locke on The American Yawp

Karin Wulf

In this episode AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein speaks with Karin Wulf, the Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. Wulf is a regular contributor to the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s blog The Scholarly Kitchen and a founding member of the initiative Women Also Know History. Wulf is the author of Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia and two co-edited volumes of 18th century women’s writing. She’s currently completing a book exploring the relationship between genealogical practices and political culture titled “Lineage: The Practice of Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in 18th century British America.”

In this episode AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein speaks with Karin Wulf, the Director of the <a href="https://oieahc.wm.edu/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture</a> and Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. Wulf is a regular contributor to the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s blog <a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Scholarly Kitchen</a> and a founding member of the initiative <a href="https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Women Also Know History</a>. Wulf is the author of Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia and two co-edited volumes of 18th century women’s writing. She’s currently completing a book exploring the relationship between genealogical practices and political culture titled “Lineage: The Practice of Genealogy and the Politics of Connection in 18th century British America.”

Karin Wulf on Scholarly Publishing and Women Also Know History

Liz Covart

Season 3 of AHR Interview kicks off with an interview with historian and podcaster Liz Covart—creator and host of the podcast Ben Franklin’s World. Covart speaks with AHR Podcast Editor Daniel Story about her journey into podcasting, the success of Ben Franklin’s World, and the overall state of history podcasting. You can learn more about Liz Covart and Ben Franklin's World at benfranklinsworld.com.

Season 3 of AHR Interview kicks off with an interview with historian and podcaster Liz Covart—creator and host of the podcast Ben Franklin’s World. Covart speaks with AHR Podcast Editor Daniel Story about her journey into podcasting, the success of Ben Franklin’s World, and the overall state of history podcasting. You can learn more about Liz Covart and Ben Franklin's World at <a href="https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">benfranklinsworld.com</a>.

Liz Covart on the State of History Podcasting

Kathryn Tomasek

In the fall of 2018, Wheaton College historian Kathryn Tomasek made a visit to Indiana University, Bloomington, as a guest of IU’s Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities. AHR Interview producer Daniel Story sat down with her in front of a live audience to discuss historians and digital scholarship. Kathryn Tomasek is Professor of History at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where she teaches nineteenth-century U.S. history, women’s history, and digital history, and is a founding director of the Wheaton College Digital History Project. She has written extensively on both women’s history and digital history and methodology and served as a member of the American Historical Association’s ad hoc Committee on the Professional Evaluation of Digital Publications by Historians. Her current focus includes an ongoing collaborative project to TEI encode historical financial records.

Kathryn Tomasek on Historians and Digital Scholarship

Kathryn Olivarius

In this episode, editor Alex Lichtenstein speaks with Kathryn Olivarius, whose article, “Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans,” appears in the April 2019 issue of the AHR. Olivarius is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University where she focuses on the antebellum South, Greater Caribbean, slavery, and disease. Her book, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

Kathryn Olivarius on Her Article “Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans”

Brandon Byrd

In this episode we speak with Brandon R. Byrd about his work in African American and African Diaspora intellectual history. His first book, forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press, is titled The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti. Byrd is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He also currently serves as vice president of the African American Intellectual History Society and is a contributor to that organization’s online publication Black Perspectives. The African American Intellectual History Society is a scholarly organization dedicated to the research, writing, and teaching of Black thought and culture. Founded in 2014 by Christopher Cameron, it has quickly become a hub of cutting edge, cross-disciplinary public scholarship. In addition to publishing Black Perspectives, it offers a range of fellowships, awards, and prizes, and hosts an annual conference, which in March 2019 will be held at the University of Michigan.

Brandon Byrd on African American Intellectual History

Regina Kunzel

In this episode we speak with historian Regina Kunzel, whose review essay titled “The Power of Queer History” appears in the December 2018 issue of the AHR. Kunzel is the Doris Stevens Chair and Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, published in 2008 by the University of Chicago Press, and Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890–1945, published in 1993 by Yale University Press. Interviewing Kunzel is a past interviewee on this podcast, Durham University historian David Minto. His article “Perversion by Penumbras: Wolfenden, Griswold, and the Transatlantic Trajectory of Sexual Privacy” appears in the journal’s October 2018 issue.

Regina Kunzel on Her Article "The Power of Queer History"

Lara Putnam

In this episode we look back at one of our most read articles from the past few years—Lara Putnam’s “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast,” which appears in the April 2016 issue of the AHR. In it, Putnam explores some of the unintended, as well as largely unexamined, consequences of the mass digitization of historical sources, what she calls the digitized turn, and how this development has linked in both positive and potentially problematic ways to the rise of transnational history. Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.377. Lara Putnam is a historian of race, gender, migration, and politics in the twentieth-century Americas. Her recent publications have pursued two tracks: exploring theoretical and methodological dimensions of the historical discipline’s “transnational turn” from the basis of her deep training within the area studies paradigm; and continuing her empirical archival research into the history of the Greater Caribbean, including not only anglophone, hispanophone, and francophone islands but the interlinked borderlands that stretch from Venezuela to Central America and indeed on to New Orleans and Harlem. Most recently, she was the lead author of a successful Mellow Sawyer Seminar proposal entitled “Information Ecosystems: Creating Data (and Absence) from the Quantitative to the Digital Age,” a process that brought together a multidisciplinary team from across the humanities and social sciences. This national grant will bring a series of leading international scholars together over the course of AY 2019-20, foregrounding both the importance of cutting-edge computational methods in the social sciences and humanities, and the need for critical thinking about data infrastructure and information ecosystems as we engage those methods. Putnam is also engaged in a parallel line of research and writing about face-to-face political organizing and its role in a fraught age of political change, with articles in Democracy, The New Republic, The American Prospect, and beyond. With Theda Skocpol. “Middle America Reboots Democracy.” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Summer 2018 print issue. https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/middle-america-reboots-democracy/ With Theda Skocpol. “Accentuate the Activists.” The New Republic, September 2018 print issue. https://newrepublic.com/article/150462/women-rebuilding-democratic-party-ground “Digital Fixes Won’t Solve the Democrats’ Problems.” American Prospect, April 2018. http://prospect.org/article/digital-fixes-wont-solve-democrats-problems

In this episode we look back at one of our most read articles from the past few years—Lara Putnam’s “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast,” which appears in the April 2016 issue of the AHR. In it, Putnam explores some of the unintended, as well as largely unexamined, consequences of the mass digitization of historical sources, what she calls the digitized turn, and how this development has linked in both positive and potentially problematic ways to the rise of transnational history. Read the article here: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.377" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.377</a>. Lara Putnam is a historian of race, gender, migration, and politics in the twentieth-century Americas. Her recent publications have pursued two tracks: exploring theoretical and methodological dimensions of the historical discipline’s “transnational turn” from the basis of her deep training within the area studies paradigm; and continuing her empirical archival research into the history of the Greater Caribbean, including not only anglophone, hispanophone, and francophone islands but the interlinked borderlands that stretch from Venezuela to Central America and indeed on to New Orleans and Harlem. Most recently, she was the lead author of a successful Mellow Sawyer Seminar proposal entitled “Information Ecosystems: Creating Data (and Absence) from the Quantitative to the Digital Age,” a process that brought together a multidisciplinary team from across the humanities and social sciences. This national grant will bring a series of leading international scholars together over the course of AY 2019-20, foregrounding both the importance of cutting-edge computational methods in the social sciences and humanities, and the need for critical thinking about data infrastructure and information ecosystems as we engage those methods. Putnam is also engaged in a parallel line of research and writing about face-to-face political organizing and its role in a fraught age of political change, with articles in Democracy, The New Republic, The American Prospect, and beyond. With Theda Skocpol. “Middle America Reboots Democracy.” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Summer 2018 print issue. <a href="https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/middle-america-reboots-democracy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/middle-america-reboots-democracy/</a> With Theda Skocpol. “Accentuate the Activists.” The New Republic, September 2018 print issue. <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/150462/women-rebuilding-democratic-party-ground" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/article/150462/women-rebuilding-democratic-party-ground</a> “Digital Fixes Won’t Solve the Democrats’ Problems.” American Prospect, April 2018. <a href="http://prospect.org/article/digital-fixes-wont-solve-democrats-problems" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://prospect.org/article/digital-fixes-wont-solve-democrats-problems</a>

A Look Back at Lara Putnam’s Article “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable”

The runaway success of the Broadway musical Hamilton has thrilled and challenged American audiences with a racially diverse reimagining of the nation’s founding. The highly acclaimed show has had children and adults alike talking about, and singing about, historical figures such as Alexander Hamilton and documents like the Federalist Papers. But how have historians reacted to this interpretation and popularizing of America’s past? In this episode we speak with some of the contributors to the volume Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America’s Past, which was published in May 2018 by Rutgers University Press. Our guests are the book’s editors, Claire Bond Potter of the New School and Renee Romano of Oberlin College. They are joined by three additional contributors: Leslie Harris of Northwestern University, Elizabeth Wollman of Baruch College and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, and Patricia Herrera of the University of Richmond. They spoke with AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein.

AHR Interview: Historians on Hamilton

Sean Jacobs

AHR Interview is excited to present a new four-part series on the recent blockbuster film Black Panther. In these episodes, AHR editorial assistant Charlene Fletcher speaks with four different scholars about their reactions to the film and what it evokes about the culture and politics of African and African diasporic history. The first episode features a fuller introduction to the series as a whole. This episode features Sean Jacobs, Associate Professor of International Affairs at the New School, the author and coeditor of numerous books on South African politics and culture, and the founder of the innovative website Africa Is a Country.

AHR Interview: Sean Jacobs on the Film Black Panther

Donna Murch

The June issue of the AHR features a series of short essays commemorating the 50th anniversary of 1968. In this episode our guest is one of the contributors to this series, Donna Murch. Her piece is titled “Black Liberation and 1968.” She spoke about it with AHR editor Alex Lichtenstein. Murch is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of the 2010 book Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California.

AHR Interview: Donna Murch Discusses Her Essay “Black Liberation and 1968”

Vanessa Ogle

Our guest in this episode is Vanessa Ogle. Ogle is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of the 2015 book The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950. She is currently researching the topic of tax havens and offshore finance, and a portion of that research appears as an article in the December 2017 issue of the AHR. Its title is “Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s–1970s.” She speaks with AHR associate editor Konstantin Dierks. You can find Ogle’s article at https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.5.1431.

Our guest in this episode is Vanessa Ogle. Ogle is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of the 2015 book The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950. She is currently researching the topic of tax havens and offshore finance, and a portion of that research appears as an article in the December 2017 issue of the AHR. Its title is “Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s–1970s.” She speaks with AHR associate editor Konstantin Dierks. You can find Ogle’s article at <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.5.1431" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.5.1431</a>.

AHR Author Vanessa Ogle on the History of Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State

Sunil Amrith

In this episode we speak with Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of the 2006 book Decolonizing International Health: South and Southeast Asia, 1930-1965 and the 2011 book Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia. His most recent book, published in 2013, is Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. Amrith speaks with Pedro Machado who is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University and whose own work focuses on the history of social and commercial connections between western India and southeastern Africa. Their conversation explores Amrith’s most recent book as well as what his recent award might mean for his future research. They begin by discussing Amrith’s AHR article, “Tamil Diasporas across the Bay of Bengal,” which appeared in the June 2009 issue. Read Amrith's article in the AHR: https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.3.547 Listeners may also be interested in the December 2016 AHR forum on Amitav Ghosh's "Ibis Trilogy": https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.5.1521

In this episode we speak with Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of the 2006 book Decolonizing International Health: South and Southeast Asia, 1930-1965 and the 2011 book Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia. His most recent book, published in 2013, is Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. Amrith speaks with Pedro Machado who is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University and whose own work focuses on the history of social and commercial connections between western India and southeastern Africa. Their conversation explores Amrith’s most recent book as well as what his recent award might mean for his future research. They begin by discussing Amrith’s AHR article, “Tamil Diasporas across the Bay of Bengal,” which appeared in the June 2009 issue. Read Amrith's article in the AHR: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.3.547" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.114.3.547</a> Listeners may also be interested in the December 2016 AHR forum on Amitav Ghosh's "Ibis Trilogy": <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.5.1521" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.5.1521</a>

Sunil Amrith Discusses His Recent MacArthur Fellowship Award

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